The Trump admin is leaving no stone unturned. The entire D.C. establishment needs a makeover.
And now Trump’s intel chief has made a huge announcement for Americans on Fox News.
Slashing Bureaucratic Fat to Restore Real Intelligence for America First
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently took to Fox News to unveil sweeping reforms at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Appearing on Jesse Watters Primetime, Gabbard didn’t mince words about the agency’s failures, signaling a much-needed crackdown on the deep state bloat that’s plagued our intelligence community for years.
Gabbard reminded viewers that Congress created the ODNI two decades ago in the wake of the 9/11 intelligence failures, with the goal of integrating agencies and delivering straight-shooting info to the president. But as she laid out, the office has veered wildly off course, becoming a politicized monster that betrays its founding purpose.
“It is rife with politicization, weaponization, the very thing that it was created to try to prevent and get after. And, unfortunately, it has failed to meet its mandate. And so this launch today of ODNI 2.0, as you said, we will save taxpayers more than $700 million every year, cutting the organization by over 40% and making sure that those who are working at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are aggressively getting after our core mission,” Gabbard told Jesse Watters.
Instead of focusing on timely, unbiased intelligence for the commander-in-chief, the ODNI has swollen into a bureaucratic behemoth, wasting taxpayer dollars while undermining national security. Gabbard pulled no punches in exposing how far the agency has strayed from its roots.
“And this office was created by Congress to get after those problems, to make sure that there is one independent body providing that oversight over the intelligence community, integrating intelligence, making sure that the left hand is sharing information with the right hand,” Gabbard said.
She drove home the point that the core mission is crystal clear: providing the president with intelligence that’s on time, on target, and free from political spin. Yet, under previous administrations, the ODNI has exploded in size, drowning in red tape and self-serving agendas.
“And fundamentally and most importantly, ensuring that the intelligence that is being provided to the President of the United States is timely, it is relevant, and it is apolitical, objective, that he is actually getting the information he needs to make the critical decisions that he makes every single day. Fast forward to where we are today, ODNI has more than doubled in size. It is bloated with bureaucracy.”
Gabbard’s announcement included a massive 40% cut in personnel and the shuttering of politicized centers, all part of “ODNI 2.0”—the first real shake-up since the office’s inception. This comes after rigorous audits by her handpicked team, proving once again that under President Trump, accountability is back in vogue.
The ODNI was born from the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, aimed at smashing the deadly silos that let 9/11 happen. But even with those changes, leaks and hidden agendas have kept the intelligence world fractured, often at the expense of American safety.
Take the infamous 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election—it peddled the narrative that Moscow was all-in for Trump. Declassified docs later exposed how raw intel was twisted or outright invented, hoarded by a cabal under then-CIA Director John Brennan, flouting every rule in the book.
This ODNI revamp is just the latest salvo in President Trump’s relentless crusade against federal waste, a fight he’s waged since day one to put America First and drain the swamp. From the start of his second term, Trump has turbocharged efforts to trim the fat, building on his proven track record of slashing regulations and bureaucracy.
Early on, Trump rolled out a 10-to-1 deregulation push, demanding that for every new rule, agencies ditch ten old ones, saving billions in compliance costs and unleashing economic growth for everyday folks. This wasn’t just talk—his administration has continued shrinking the federal footprint to boost accountability and stomp out inefficiency.
Trump’s no-nonsense approach has targeted bloated agencies head-on, with firings of entrenched bureaucrats and even whole departments on the chopping block, putting administrative overreach in the crosshairs. Oversight hearings have hammered home the priority: making government efficient and saving taxpayer dollars is non-negotiable in this era.
Regulatory rollbacks under Trump have been aggressive, delaying or repealing burdensome rules that strangle innovation and pile on costs for American businesses and families. And let’s not forget the game-changer: the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), spearheaded by Elon Musk, tasked with dismantling bureaucracy and restructuring agencies to serve the people, not the elites.
DOGE’s early wins include eyeing over $60 billion in savings by axing Pentagon waste—strengthening our military while lightening the load on taxpayers who deserve better than funding endless inefficiencies. In the first 100 days alone, efforts to slash the federal workforce have ramped up, despite pushback from the usual suspects in the swamp. With Republicans overwhelmingly backing these cuts, it’s clear the American people are fed up with the status quo and ready for real change.
